Friday, November 02, 2007

Scheduled Service Announcement

At VertexHost we continually strive to bring you quality service. As part of this commitment we must occasionally make upgrades to our network which can cause slight periods of downtime or slower service.

On Saturday, November 3rd at approximately 11:30pm (pst) until Sunday, November 4th at approximately 2:00am (pst) we will be working on upgrades to our backup network infrastructure. Though this work will mostly have very little effect on our normal operations we will be required to momentarily power up and power down a few of the servers. No individual server will need to be offline for more then 5 minutes.

During this same time slot we will also start migrating some of our dedicated server customers back-up services to our newest and most powerful backup server running the Righteous Backup Software. We will then continue to migrate some customers to this server over the next week. Our procedure will not cause any backups to be missed and if your server will be involved in this procedure we will contact you directly 2 days or more prior to any such migrations.

If you have any questions at all please feel free to submit a support ticket via our support site at http://www.vertexhost.com/support

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 11/02 at 04:07 AM
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

NaBloPoMo

For fun this month, we’re going to participate in “NaBloPoMo”, otherwise known as “National Blog Posting Month”.  This event was first held last year, and the purpose of it is to try to post a blog entry on every single day in the month of November.  It’s harder than it sounds!  Most of the blogs which participate are personal blogs, and there aren’t too many business or tech blogs in the mix, so I thought it would be fun to give it a try.  I’m representin’ for the geeks.


Posted by Leigh-Ann on 11/01 at 04:03 AM
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The latest in pumpkins and technology

Just in time for Halloween, students at the Illinois Institute of Technology held a contest to see which student group could build the most effective launching device for a 20 pound pumpkin.  With a budget of $300 per team, 19 teams applied their engineering and physics skills to building a very simple catapult from wood and weights.  No electricity or explosives were allowed.  As a group, the competitors thought that a toss of 100 feet would be a great result, so they were thrilled when the winning team’s pumpkin flew 234 feet.  While that’s nowhere near the “pumpkin chucking world record” of 4,434 feet, that record was achieved using compressed air cannons.  One extra bit of trivia:  It’s believed that whether a pumpkin travels 234 feet or 4434 feet, the amount of mess to clean up is roughly the same.

To leave you with something a little bit spooky, here’s time-lapse video of what your pumpkin endures when you forget to toss it out with the trash, or feed it to the pigs:

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 10/31 at 08:26 PM
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Light sabers in orbit

Taxpayers who are fans of “Star Wars” were thrilled when NASA announced that the original lightsaber prop from 1983’s “Return of the Jedi” is on-board the space shuttle Discovery.  The Discovery is currently in orbit, on a mission to build and repair sections of the International Space Station.  Discovery’s busy crew is not expected to handle the lightsaber, which is packed in an inaccessible compartment, but they must be aware that it’s on-board.  With George Lucas, Chewbacca, and Jedi knights all present at the Discovery launch, the crew must have known that something was up.

When the shuttle lands, “Space Center Houston” will display the well-traveled light saber as part of an exhibit on Star Wars’ 30th anniversary.  It’s not known if any other movie memorabilia is scheduled to take orbit, although I think it would very appropriate for NASA to fly with a prop from the chick-flick, “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 10/30 at 01:20 AM
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Monday, October 29, 2007

Bendable television

Sony announced that beginning in December, they’re going to start to sell the world’s first organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs in Japan.  An OLED screen can be as little as 3mm thick, and it can exist on a flexible surface, meaning that a “wearable television set” could one day be a possibility.  The technology isn’t without its drawbacks, however - an OLED screen will have a life about half as long as an LED screen.  That will mean you’re paying a lot more, and buying more often.  The first OLED screen will be an 11” display, but it will cost close to $2,000.

Sony wants to be first out the gate with this technology, but rivals like Mitsubishi will follow with their own products early next year.  There are no plans to sell outside of Japan at this time, but competition in the electronics market ensures that we’ll eventually have a good selection of OLED TVs in North America, and that their prices will be down but their sizes will be up. 

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 10/29 at 01:38 AM
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